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NavTracks: Supporting Navigation in Software
St. Louis, Missouri May 15-May 16
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/WPC.2005.2513th International Workshop on Progra ...
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Janice Singer, National Research Council Canada
Robert Elves, University of Victoria
Margaret-Anne Storey, University of Victoria
Any modification to a software system involves investigating the source code with the goal of understanding it. In turn, this investigation usually requires significant navigation effort. However, relatively little research has been conducted on software developer navigation patterns and tool support for improving navigation. Our research addresses this issue. We present Navtracks, a tool that supports browsing through software. NavTracks keeps track of the navigation history of software developers, forming associations between related files. These associations are then used as the basis for recommending potentially related files as a developer browses the software system.
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Janice Singer, Robert Elves, Margaret-Anne Storey, "NavTracks: Supporting Navigation in Software," icpc, pp.173-175, 13th International Workshop on Program Comprehension (IWPC'05), 2005
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